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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 55m
A seminar on autofictional methodology as a way of assessing feminist discourses on violence and care. Book now for ‘Beyond Authenticity: Affordances of Autofictional Methodology in Contemporary Women’s Life-Writing', a BSA Auto/Biography Study Group online event, 7 January 2026 tinyurl.com/3cs58fft
Image text says: This seminar analyses autofictional methodology as a radical form for assessing current feminist discourses on violence and care. Book now for ‘Beyond Authenticity: Affordances of Autofictional Methodology in Contemporary Women’s Life-Writing’, a BSA Auto/Biography Study Group online event, 7 January 2026 https://tinyurl.com/3cs58fft
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 1d
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025

Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 1d
Book now for ‘Feeling and Living Nature: A Relational Ontology’, a free online event run by the BSA New Materialisms Study Group, 3 November tinyurl.com/yhrerhb6 #sociology
Image text: Book now for ‘Feeling and Living Nature: A Relational Ontology’, a free online event run by the BSA New Materialisms Study Group, 3 November https://tinyurl.com/yhrerhb6 #sociology
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 1d
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship, in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper.

Read now below:
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Image text says: Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper. Read now below: https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231157440
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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum @bsaecf.bsky.social · 1d
Are Interested in:
👉 Housing,
👉 Health,
👉 Youth,
👉 Work,
👉 Aging,
👉 Inequality,
👉 Climate change, or
👉 Criminal justice?

If so, join the ADR England webinar 22 October 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities!

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Early Career Forum - Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Workshop
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 2d
Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas show how two forms of trans-border nationalism are mobilized to circulate art and literature internationally.

Read the CUS Sage Prize nominated paper below.
doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Image text says: Peggy Levitt and Andreja Siliunas show how two forms of trans-border nationalism are mobilized to circulate art and literature internationally. Read the CUS Sage Prize nominated paper below. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755221147653
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 6d
Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other.

Submission deadline: TOMORROW, Friday 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
Image text: Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 6d
In her CUS Sage Prize nominated article, Nina Margies explores how people interpret deep transformations, how they integrate them into their everyday meaning-making and what role emotion work plays therein.

Read the full article below:
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Image text says: In her CUS Sage Prize nominated article, Nina Margies explores how people interpret deep transformations, how they integrate them into their everyday meaning-making and what role emotion work plays therein. Read the full article below: https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241234701
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 6d
WES Earning while Learning Special Issue Sessions

The Guest Editors of Work, Employment and Society’s new special are hosting two online sessions for prospective authors to learn more about the issue - Zoom sessions on 13 October at 09:00 and 16:00 BST. Register by 10 October:
tinyurl.com/nhx33ru7
Image text says: The Guest Editors of Work, Employment and Society’s new special are hosting two online sessions for prospective authors to learn more about the special issue. Sessions will be on Zoom on 13 October 2025 at 09:00 and 16:00 BST. Register by 10 October below: https://tinyurl.com/nhx33ru7
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 7d
Sociological Research Online is now accepting nominations for the role of the Chair of the Editorial Board!

We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/...
Image text says: Sociological Research Online is now accepting nominations for the role of the Chair of the Editorial Board! We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/sro_external_call_for_chair_apps_2025.pdf
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 7d
🌟 We are very excited to announce this year’s nominees for the Cultural Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence! Find the full list below. Be sure to share your thoughts!

www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
Image text says: We are very excited to announce this year’s nominees for the Cultural Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence! Find the full list below. Be sure to share your thoughts! https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/sage-prize-for-innovationexcellence
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 7d
Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other.

Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
IMAGE TEXT SAYS: Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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Department of Sociology, University of York @uoy-sociology.bsky.social · 8d
Sociology is marking Black History Month with a poster display highlighting the work of Black scholars and writers who have made significant contributions to the social sciences.

Come and visit our display on the second floor of the Law and Sociology building, from 1 October to 31 October 2025.
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 8d
Teaching Britain and Britishness 16/10/25. The concept of Britishness is bitterly contested. This roundtable will interrogate the inequalities, key challenges and dilemmas in supporting students to confront complex and diverse historical legacies: tinyurl.com/2ucmh8hz
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Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas
A round table discussion on the contested nature of Britain and Britishness in primary, secondary and higher education
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 7d
Upcoming III seminar:

Mobarak Hossain (lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social) examines the relationship between 'modernization' as part of broader structural changes and intergenerational educational mobility during the twentieth century.

Register in-person: buff.ly/3e5WMF6
Register online: buff.ly/b9fFAux
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 7d
INAUGURAL LECTURE:

🗣️ Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement - Kate Reed

📅4-5pm Tues 29 Oct 2025
📌In person (University of Manchester) or online
🎟️Free, register via Eventbrite
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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
The inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, Department of Sociology.
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association) @bsatheory.bsky.social · 7d
Submit your abstract by Friday, 3rd Oct!

'Held on the eve of the Association’s 75th anniversary, this year’s conference offers a moment to think sociologically with time: how we periodise change, how we inherit and rework ideas, and how our histories'..
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BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 7d
VACANCY: Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality: New ways of doing death admin

Apply by 9 Oct, 3yr post (full time), £37-39k

Please do apply or help us share this job 🙏
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 7d
BSA urges support for the International Sociological Association’s declaration ‘A Time for Sociology’, presented at the 2025 ISA Forum and endorsed by over 1,000 sociologists globally tinyurl.com/2s459399
A Time for Sociology
A Time for Sociology
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 8d
Don’t miss out! Abstracts invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other.

Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
image text says: Don’t miss out! Abstracts invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 8d
Corine van Emmerik reflects on the slipperiness of data, the ethical responsibility researchers have to the well-being of their participants and that of their own in her SRO Sage Prize nominated article.

Read now below.
doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Image text says: Corine van Emmerik reflects on the slipperiness of data, the ethical responsibility researchers have to the well-being of their participants and that of their own in her SRO Sage Prize nominated article. Read now below. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231164486
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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 8d
Newsletter digest from ISA research networks is here!

🗞 RC01 Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
🗞 RC20 Comparative Sociology www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
🗞 RC38 Biography and Society www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 9d
@ktwamley.bsky.social and Charlotte Faircloth explore the ways couples making the transition to parenthood think about, practise, and assess ‘gender equality’.

Read the SRO Sage Prize nominated article below.
doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Image text says: Katherine Twamley and Charlotte Faircloth explore the ways couples making the transition to parenthood think about, practise, and assess ‘gender equality’. Read the SRO Sage Prize nominated article below. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231198619
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 9d
Deadline this Friday, 3 October, for taking part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other!

Submit an abstract for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
Deadline this Friday, 3 October, for taking part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other! Submit an abstract for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 10d
Deadline this Friday (3 October) for taking part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other!

Submit an abstract for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
Text on image: Submit an abstract for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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